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The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of ethically concerned, non-religious people in the UK. It is the largest organisation in the UK campaigning for an end to religious privilege and to discrimination based on religion or belief, and for a secular state.

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No prayers, no god, no Jesus, no church: beliefs of UK ‘Christians’

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed today’s release of new Ipsos MORI research, commissioned by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science UK (RDFRS UK). The data analyses the beliefs and practices of people who ticked ‘Christian’ on the national Census, and shows that many of them have no religious beliefs, and no habits of religious practice.The research, carried out in the week following the 2011 Census, confirms the findings of research conducted in the previous week by YouGov for the BHA . That research found that:

Bishops and Christian lobbyists don’t speak for UK ‘Christians’

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed today’s release of results from new Ipsos MORI research, commissioned by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science UK (RDFRS UK). In addition to analysing  the beliefs and practices of people who ticked ‘Christian’ on the national Census, the data analyses the social and political attitudes of those people and shows that their views are very different from those espoused by many Christian churches and lobby groups.Among other findings, the research, carried out in the week following the

Growing majority of young people have no religion, government must start listening

Two-thirds of young people and half of the population as a whole do not belong to any particular religion, and the steady decline in religiosity in the UK is set to continue, the 28threport of the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey has found . The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the findings, commenting that the government is ‘fast becoming out of touch with the population’ when it introduces policies and new laws with a religious bias.Unlike the highly flawed Census

Right to Object? Conscientious Objection and Religious Conviction: important new publication launches in parliament

Is equality law oppressive or vital to protect liberty? Should there be legal exemptions for religious groups – and are there justifications for exemptions without religion? If burqas are permitted in the workplace, why not bikinis? Is conscientious objection an absolute right?Right to Object? Conscientious Objection and Religious Conviction, published by the British Humanist Association (BHA), will be launched in parliament on Thursday 3 November in a meeting hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group ,

Banning of Phones4U 'miraculous Jesus' ad a chilling ruling for free speech

In an adjudication published today , the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld complaints against Phones4U over an advertisement depicting a cartoon version of the Buddy Christ  from the comedy film Dogma, along with the tagline ‘Miraculous deals on Samsung Galaxy Android phones.’ The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called the ruling ‘completely ridiculous’, and argued that the ASA is ‘chilling the free mockery of beliefs which is vital in a

New survey evidence: census religion question ‘fatally flawed’

A new poll commissioned by the British Humanist Association (BHA) has provided fresh evidence that the census question is fatally flawed for its intended purpose of planning public services.When asked the census question ‘What is your religion?’, 61% of people in England and Wales ticked a religious box (53.48% Christian and 7.22% other) while 39% ticked ‘No religion’. But when asked ‘Are you religious?’ only 29% of the same people said ‘Yes’ while 65% said ‘No’, meaning over half of those whom the census would count as having a religion said they were not religious. Even more

As census forms arrive on Londoners’ doorsteps, Census Campaign urges non-religious to say so.

Billboards carry original message, ‘If you’re not religious, for God’s sake say so.’ As census forms begin arriving on people’s doorsteps in London, two billboards advertising the British Humanist Association’s (BHA’s) Census Campaign are being unveiled.  Bearing the slogan ‘If you’re not religious, for God’s sake say so’, which encountered censorship elsewhere, the billboard outlines a number of ways in which census data on religion has been used; and urges passers-by, if they are not religious, to say so on the census.The Census Campaign is seeking to raise awareness of the importance

Census Campaign posters banned from railway stations published here

Three posters planned for display at railway stations as part of The Census Campaign have been refused by companies owning the advertising space, who viewed them as too likely to cause offence.You can view the images at www.humanism.org.uk/census-adverts Two reasons were given by owners of the space: they were concerned that the use of the phrase ‘for God’s sake’ would cause widespread and serious offence and they also did not wish to take adverts relating to religion. The BHA has reacted with astonishment that an everyday phrase should be deemed too contentious for public display.

‘FOR GOD’S SAKE’ BANNED FROM BUSES,200 BUSES CARRY REVISED CENSUS CAMPAIGN ADVERTS

From today, posters bearing the slogan ‘If you’re not religious, for God’s sake say so’ should have been appearing on buses in major cities across England and Wales. But this latest initiative in the British Humanist Association’s (BHA’s) Census Campaign has been prevented on advice from the Committee of Advertising Practice that it had the potential to cause ‘widespread’ and ‘serious’ offence.In addition to the banners on buses in London, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham, Cardiff and Exeter, three posters planned for display at railway stations as part of the Campaign were also

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